Did some hiking, did some shopping, did some crossword puzzles, ate some waffles. Only 3 naps. A lively little weekend.

I like this take on the Keenan Feldspar character. He's a villain, but he's not evil. I've been reading Chuck Klosterman's book about the nature of villainy, and one of his catchphrases is that the villain is the character who knows the most but cares the least. Definitely fits with Feldspar - his villainy is tied to…

Didn't watch the show, but I did watch a clip of Ice Cube giving him the lowdown. Cube's position seemed totally reasonable to me, and it was obvious that Bill thought the whole thing was unfair, but he mostly just sat there and took it. So I guess that's that.

I know that. And even though he didn't lift a finger himself, he's still the exception that comes to mind when I try to tell myself that true evil doesn't exist.

I think people at news networks should be fired for not saying mean things about trump. I suppose that makes me a hypocrite.

If we're not going to kill Charles Manson, we don't need to kill anybody.

But not normalizing-Nazis, digracing the office, changing American politics forever bad. The other kind of bad, where that's just the facts of life under a 2-party system with lots of overseas interests and capitalism.

I'd never accuse these people of thinking, so maybe it's a learned behavior? Like, the first time they tried to put their hands up a girl's shirt, she jumped back and slapped them a couple times and yelled at them. So if the girl's not doing that, it must be okay.

Now, hold on there a minute. Rick Perry was also governor of Texas.

I am personally a big fan of squirrels. They're really cute, and most of the time they act like they're hopped up on speed. Watching a squirrel steal birdseed is actually very entertaining.

I used to watch Real Time a lot, but after the episode with Sam Harris and Ben Affleck, I had to let go. The anti-Muslim stuff is NOT funny.

But no more so than the "Ice Cube hasn't changed one bit since he was a young man" line of thinking.

Doctors and nurses actually practice identifying pills by color, shape, or marking. They even sell flash cards.

Sometimes he sums things up in a way that really hit home — if you're a ~leftist who believes that religion and drug enforcement are bullshit.

I seem to recall that Ice Cube was publicly called out for his prejudiced/anti-Korean lyrics. Presumably he's older and wiser now, and sees that he was part of the cycles of perpetuation that he's now trying to counter. That's actually a good thing, and not hypocritical at all.

Come on, man. What do you have against buses?

And then the second song is one of the best on the record: "Four Horsemen", "Ride the Lightning", and "Master of Puppets".

My brand new yet warped copy of Master of Puppets plays perfectly on my new intermediate turntable. It's hard to say which is better: side A or side B. Back in high school I used to fast-forward the cassette through "Orion" (so I could get to "Damage, Inc." faster), but today I savored every note, and somehow for the…

Same idea could also apply to people driving cars to the supermarket. What makes you think your dog wants to go sit alone in a hot car for half an hour?

Such poor marketing. You put the really exciting one last, so people have to click through 5 or 6 pages to read it.